Crosstex STILL has NOT Emptied the Butane Cavern
They have been fooling with it since August. Their butane is right next to the unstable sinkhole.
See their Dec. 10 report.
They are in violation of Conservation Dept. orders in haphazard reporting of their cavern status when they are supposed to provide them DAILY.
Texas Brine tackles hydrogen sulfide issue
DECEMBER 13, 2012
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By David J. Mitchell
Texas Brine Co. LLC installed equipment Wednesday designed to restart collection of crude oil and gas from a failed company salt cavern in the Bayou Corne area and to prevent the release of potentially dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas in the process, company officials said.
However, Sonny Cranch, spokesman for the Houston company, said oil and gas removal from the well that taps the cavern 3,400 feet underground will not resume until the new equipment is fully inspected by company consultants and state and parish agencies. . . .
. . . . The new equipment includes a tank that will hold the removed oil, capture H2S fumes emitted by the oil and send the gas to a flare already designed to burn off methane at the site, Cranch and parish officials said. The oil can then be safely removed for recycling. . . .
http://theadvocate.com/news/ascension/4667559-123/texas-brine-tackles-hydrogen-sulfide
Nutty Seismic Activity Tonight
Lots of spikes and jumps on the helicorders at the sinkhole. And many ‘blank spots’
See the monitors - http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/heli_temp/
thanks to tip from Freedomrox 
LA08:
Quake Watch Dec. charts for LA08 – in great slideshow format (notice all the ‘missing time’!).
New Sinkhole Photos
Freedomrox sent this photo -
Louisiana DNR photo
Also this one – (and he may have found them from ENE-News reader IBUILTTHIS)
Louisiana DNR Photo
CLICK ON IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE
Some more photos from DNR here.
The Parish blog photos have a few new ones posted.
Look at the ‘driveway’ (ramp into the sinkhole for equipment)! -
From Dec. 11 photo from the parish Flickr site.
and....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdHFR9H95g&feature=youtu.be
GUIDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KraVFCbemqk
GUIDE
Sinkhole is Bubbling
Sinkhole is Bubbling
Texas Brine put out an update (Dec. 10 update) and they say the sinkhole has resumed bubbling in the middle.
They still claim it is not expanding but trees continue to fall in by the ‘driveway’. That’s a trick. It must be termites
No mention of the fine they have to pay.
Texas Brine Delinquent in Fine Payment – No Word from Officials
Texas Brine Delinquent in Fine Payment – No Word from Officials
The deadline passed for scofflaw, Texas Brine, to pay that $100,000.No word so far from the parish blog or local news media.
Maybe they are waiting for word from Jindal to fire off another official order!
We will update this post later if we get news!
4:30 p.m. Flyover Video Posted
Videos of today’s flyover are posted at:
2 vids! (no embedding ) :( Look at those dead, dead trees! LINK -http://youtu.be/thdHFR9H95g LINK - http://youtu.be/MVeAT_tkrOA ENE-News on it - Oil surfacing in new area — Surrounding land now inundated
8:05 a.m. DNR 12/10 Field Update
Office of Conservation Bayou Corne Field Update Dec. 10, 2012 Activities
Texas Brine Operations
Oxy 3-A Cavern Well –
- Well shut in pending of analysis of cavern content samples and determination of best methods for control of hydrogen sulfide detected in wellbore
Texas Brine Facility Vent Well to Top of Aquifer –
- Flaring gas at 63 mcf/day
Texas Brine Facility Vent Well to Top of Cap Rock – …
shut down ... maybe to plan strategy (??) or to try not to do more harm . . .
New flyover of giant Louisiana sinkhole shows changing appearance (VIDEOS)
More Hydrogen Sulfide Problems
DECEMBER 10, 2012 BY FLYINGCUTTLEFISH
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The Advocate – Officials seek gas source
By David J. Mitchell
Dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas was detected Friday in fumes coming from crude oil drawn from an investigatory well tapped into a Texas Brine Co. LLC salt cavern in northern Assumption Parish, company and parish officials said.
The discovery of hydrogen sulfide Thursday from a methane stream flowing out of the well forced a shutdown and subsequent testing Friday of the well between the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities, officials said. . . .
http://theadvocate.com/news/ascension/4628972-123/officials-seek-gas-source
and.....
http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/bayou-frack-out/
Truth-Out Discovers the Sinkhole – Bayou Frack-Out + Radio Interview
DECEMBER 10, 2012 BY FLYINGCUTTLEFISH
The Truth-Out article and follow up radio interview.
Bayou Frack-Out: The Massive Oil and Gas Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of
By Ted Asregadoo
For residents in Assumption Parish, the boiling, gas-belching bayou, with its expanding toxic sinkhole and quaking earth is no longer a mystery; but there is little comfort in knowing the source of the little-known event that has forced them out of their homes.
Located about 45 miles south of Baton Rouge, Assumption Parish carries all the charms and curses of southern Louisiana. Networks of bayous, dotted with trees heavy with Spanish moss, connect with the Mississippi River as it slowly ambles toward the Gulf of Mexico. Fishermen and farmers make their homes there, and so does the oil and gas industry, which has woven its own network of wells, pipelines and processing facilities across the lowland landscape. . . .
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13136-bayou-frack-out-the-massive-oil-and-gas-disaster-youve-never-heard-of
And the RADIO INTERVIEW is here
In the interview they avoid all of the larger issues about the sinkhole. They don’t touch on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the butane nearby, the Dow chemicals and other huge stockpiles nearby etc. etc. They stick to the immediate local impact only. No research by the author at all.
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